The fruits of our labors!

[pandasheart]

Brian & I rode over to check on the garden early to take advantage of the cooler temperatures. While two weeks was a little bit long to go for the weeds, the plants really took off!

• The tomato plants are flowering & the first plant we put in has green tomatoes.
• The yellow squash is going OK, the plants that were underwater earlier in the spring are somewhat stunted, but the ones on higher ground look great with lots of flowers. At first all I saw was a tiny squash, but lo & behold, I found a beauty of about 8 inches under one of the huge leaves.
• The onions looked good too, again with the underwater guys a bit behind. Brian said they are ready to start picking & we choose 4 to come home with us.
• While weeding, Brian thinned out his carrots & pulled a few that were about 2 inches long. He ate one of them too!
• The big surprise for me was the rutabaga ... 3 of them were ready to be picked already!
• Small peppers are emerging as well.

After weeding, we planted two more pepper plants & a sad little cucumber plant that had been donated to the garden by a local Boy Scout troop.

Brian is all jazzed to plant a garden at the house next years; I said lets take it one garden at a time.